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Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-13

In our railroad column to-day will be
found the realization of Dallas that Fort
Worth is to get the St Louis, Arkansas
and Texas railroad. Acting upon the
GAzETTE's hint, the people of Branch
town will now try to get branch of the
Cotton Belt road by donating the "Trunk. {"
There is something pathetic in the candor
of the News and the awakening of Dallas
to the fact that Fort Worth will be the
grand center of the trunk lines in Texas;
we are real sorry, but railroad centers,
like charity, should begin at home.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-13

THE red flag division of the Knights OF
Labor of Chicago have issued a circular
to the order throughout the country de-
nouncing General Master Workman Pow
derly for his rejoicings over the defeat OF
the anarchists at the recent municipal
elections in that city. If these fiery
mouthed blatherskites knew when they
were hurt this would prove boomerang
to them. The position taken by Powderly
not only showed that he was a sensible,
patriotic American citizen, but it also
strengthened the order of which he is the
head, throughout the country. The an
archIsts threaten to withdraw from the
order, and it would be well for the order
if thew did,
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-13
WHY NOT INVE&Ta

Again we take up this subject in appeal to
the colored people to procure themselves lands
and other property while the purchase day is
at hand. 1t VIII become dawn and then dark,
which will be too late. You can now buy land
at nominal price that will soon advance 30
per cent. These lands are all over Texas, and
are becoming more valuable in every section of
the state, and especially in North Texas. This
is a chance for colored men to become land
owners and capitalistswhch will give more Zest
to your citizenship than all the politicians you
may elect. We must lay aside all political in
tentions and look to a business engagement for
salvation.-LFo Worth Chronicle.
The Chronicle is edited by colored men
for colored people, and in no way dem
Onstrates its devotion to the negro more
than IN such common sense advice as is
embodied III the above paragraph.
Homes, property in land, make the white
man reputable citizen and identify him
with law and order and the common wei
fare, and the same cause will produce the
same effect in the black man. The black
man is too much given to aping the vices
rather than the virtues of the white man;
he affects too much the watch chain, the
buggy on Sunday, the saloon and the
gaming table.
The negro will remove the reproach of
color and the social prejudice against it
when he himself ennobIes his color. How
can class expect honor and respect
when that class is held as open to pur-
chase on election days? How can class
lose it's identity as such and become an
integral part of the community until, as g
class, it owns homes and is not, as
class, migratory and uncertain?
THE GAZETTE knows colored family
in Fort Worth whose members are as
truly ladies and gentlemen as though their
skins were white as snow. The mother
at the wash tub and the father at other
labor bought home in this city, and
also own farm near the city-they are
"well off, and will be rich, and industry
and economy did it. The daughter, late
ly married, still works out as an ironer,
and in dress and department is lady;
she does not scorn the work by which
now she is better provided against
the rainy day than many q white
woman; she does not deem common
politeness servility, and, as a COR
sequence, has the respect of all who
know her.
The Chronicle is right. The negro
should get him ahome; he should liberate
himself from the degradation o. voting as
his political master says; he should stop
giving the livery stable half or quarter
of his week wages on Sunday; he should
note the agencies that make white men
respected and honored, and close his eyes
to the dude, the gambler and the idler;
he should realize that his class will never
rise until it works out it's own salvation.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-13

No, ESTEEMED Dallas contemporaries,
no; cit does not, indeed, look much like
the st. Louis, Arkansas and Texas is
coming to Dallas with its main line"
When Fort Worth is offered railroad at
a given price it is safe to gamble your
nickel that Fort Worth will get that road
But "spur" up, neighbors; don't De
downcast; give your old "Trunk" to
Fordyce, and thus secure another branch
road. And we donate another hint, free
of charge: Keep your eyes on Greenville
and Tyler-there's music in the air.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-13

TIME, in it's remorseless march, obliter-
ates many familiar landmarks which are
sadly missed. Tilden and John Kelly are
gone; Hendricks and Logan have passed
away; the Fitz John Porter bill and
Blaine's nervous prostration have been
erased from the palimpsest of the pres
ent, and still the work of devastation con
tinues. 1t is soothing to reflect that
there are some things, at least, which the
waves of time cannot wash into the gulf
of oblivion. The Dallas water supply
and Susan B. Anthony still remain.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-13

THE people of the south do not enthuse
to any very extravaganza extent over the
New York Herald's nomination Of Mr..
Henry W. Grady as q Vice-Presidential
candidate. In fact, the people of the
south seem to have a keener perception
than that very estimable journal. There
is q wide difference between the solid
requisites of true craftsmanship and those
iridescent superfcialties which enable g
clever speaker to entertain well an after
dinner audience. The people of the south
seem to know this.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-13
Mills va. Mortgages.

ST, LOUIE GIOUe DGnOCrdI
The farmers of Texas, Arkansas and
Louisiana are arranging scheme of CO.
operation which, if properly carried ont,
will benefit them greatly, and speedily
drive out the crop mortgage. The idea is
to construct cotton, cotIon-seed oil, and
-four mills in different centers so as to
enable farmer to get local market for
his produce and be sure of obtaining
fair price. The mills will be owned oy
the farmers themselves, who Will act as
their own commission agents and manu-
facture with their own produce.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-13

THE GAZETTE says that prohibition is not a
pol tical issue, but places dispatches of prohi-
bition meetings under the head of political"
Times.
The bucket shop law was a political
act, but it was not q partisan question
The interstate commerce law was a po-
litical act, but it was not partisan ques-
ton. Prohibition is political question,
but not partisan one.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-13

MISS ROsK5 ELIzARETH CLEVELAND has
ceased beingaliterary celebrity and is again
school marin. Miss Rose may be altruls-
tic but shests not literary. Her verses
may be worth a dollar line to pub
Usher but her prose is not worth reading.
She tried to portray lie creme de lie creme
of American society and she gave them
manners which would shock even those
rems4g regions in Arkansas where young
men paint their sweethearts with poke
berry Juice.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-13

ARKANSAS and Alabama are a little
ahead of the other states. Alabama
elected an escaped convict to the legisla-
ture; Arkansas elected "Hudgins of
Polk" who was wanted in Georgia on
charge of arson. No other state can
boast of this distinction; but other states
may have elected men to the Legislature
who should have been in the pen.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-13

IT MAY be in order agsin to remark that
Dallas and Paris and Granville and Ter
rell and Tyler will contest for the East
Texas trade, while Fort Worth enjoys a
monopoly of that in the greaJwest. There's
cold blooded business andmillions in this
no sSinu remark
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-13

THE south of to-day has something
else to do besides worrying over the al
legged plumbers or brilliancies of war
times. We are now on the broad battle
field of human progress, not delving
among unhappy "reminiscences.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-13
IndiAnapOlis News.

Gas to the north of US, gas to the east
of US, gas right under (maybe). At any
rate there is gas within burning distance,
and the sooner we lay hold of it and
make it available, the sooner will we en-
ter upon career of vast and steadily in
Greasing prosperity.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-13

II THESE rains in the west and north
west continue, how long will it be ere the
husbandman complains of too much!
The water courses are all full, the crops.
are promising, but still il rains. =
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-13
Every Man to His Taste.
Kansas City Time


Sam Small told his Minneapolis congre-
CATION that if they paid 81 to hear Bern
hardt they would be damned. That must
be so, for there are plenty of men in
Kansas City who said they would be
damned if they paid 81 to hear her. But
they expressed perfect willingness to
pay SIS.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-13

THE total debt of Uncle Sam On May
was 81, 695, POI, 0OO63. He is able to owe
it. All the same there was in the Treas
ury, available for reduction of the public
debt, 1924, 1894.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-13
The Democratic Heart with Cleveland.
Lincoln (Neb.) Democrat.

The agony as to whether Cleveland
would accept nomination for q second
term is confined to the Republican bosom.
The Democratic heart mas been for him
ever since he walked the frame of Mr..
Blaine in such business-like way.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-13

IT Is all nonsense talking about Mr..
Grady accepting the second place on the
presidential ticket. He is president OF
the Southern Base B IL League, and revo-
Iutions never go backward.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-13
Meek1y GAZETTE.

To WEST TEXAS: Plant few trees.
Plant few every year, and the children
yet unborn will rise up and call you
blessed
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-13

THERE is some idle talk of rivalry now.
By the end of 1888 no town will be men
toned as possible rival of Fort Worth.
The man who acts on this hint will profit
thereby
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-13

Gin General DebiIfss4 Emaciation, Con-
nmption, and Wasting In Children,
500 IT'S sfVLSION of Pure Cod Liver OIL
with Hspophosphites, is a most valuable food
and IAdicfns. 1t creates an appetite for food,
stsenEthens che nervqyss 81 steEGAd builds mp
sid On a sing m9n whels+ph ysieaSss at
tiAld@ gave hopex 70 ce ,hs {fssa nzllst4g the
EhuisS0n q q con III hasS CEASED gaine3 siesh
ana strength, and from aHappearances hts life:
viii be prolonged many years."-JoHN SuLEI-
VAN, Hospital Steward, Morganza, Pa.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-13
So Easy to Pronounce.

NCh 1OAH 11ADuAS-
Queen Kapiolani's name is pronounced
about as it is spelled, with the chief ac-
cent on the second syllable and a second
airy accent on the fourth syllable. Prin-
cess Liliuokalani accents the third
syllable of her name, GU" and puts a
sllghter accent on the sixth syllable,
tlan."
Ever day increases the rsnular,ts AM
ss4aci Cstfer's Little river Pills The
reason Is pat Wien on6& used s1FgiseJ q
sire 70 fuoWs Drss 5saasStF.is ~ 8
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-13

The San Antonio liquor men organized
themselves into campaign body and re-
solved to assess each dealer $40 monthly
for the purpose of the campaign. They
also resolved to boycott all business men
and individuals who favor prohibition.
This latter is bad move. 1t is reported
from some towns in Texas that the ants
are Withdrawing support from papers
which advocate prohibition. This is
wrong. The right CT opinion should be
respected. 1t can be said of most Prohi-
tionists that they do not try to boycott
papers, because they oppose prohibition.
-TCIeburpe Chronicle.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-13

When local prohibition was the issue
almost every prominent leader now in
the prohibition camp were shouting
themselves hOarse proclaiming it undem-
ocrstic, unconstitutional, sumptuary, de-
strpctiVe to personal liberty, and blight
on revenue and general prosperity. :
Since state prohibition has become the
issue, they apply all their stock of cant
phrases to it and swear that local prohi-
bition is Democratic, constitutional and
and ali that is wise add good and lovely,
in free country.
Is this sudden change Of heart the re-
suit of genuine conversion, or it is brazen
hypocrisy? we respectfully refer them
to the following from Governor Coke's
views as expressed in the Galveston
News. in September, 1885, in which he
says:
prohibition, or local option, cannot be main
tanned in the precinct by any argument which
is not equally potent to maintain it In the coun
ty and state.
The argument would seem stronger for the
county, and still stronger for the state, because
of increased numbers and therefore greater
good. If good for the precinct Ii is better for
the county, and best for the state.'
sold Brains" states the proposition
fairly, and if the sale of intoxicating
liquors TO be used IS q beverage is detri-
mental to any community, it certainly is
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berry juice
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Gus Turner, n his little speech before
the anti-prohibition convention last Sat-
urday, said he should oppose the iprohibi-
ton amendment because it was too radi-
cal-because it placed the still-house and
the vineyard on-the same footing. This
argument will be freely used, end the
poor oppressed grspegrower will be held
up for sympathy Oh all sides. But one
fact can be noticed alwsys-it isn't the
vineyard but the still-house that
is kicking at the proposed law.
# there was no opposition to the
amendment except that made bV
the grape growers, the amendment would
have q walk over. The cry about our
great grape industry is only to work up
sympathy By which the stillhouse may
benefit. If the grape is entitled to ex-
emption, the peach, apple and other
brandy making fruits would be also. And
then corn and rye could not be Kept out.
The wfne-making industry of Texas is not
great at present, and the state will not
suffer much if it is strangled in good
cause Sherman Courier.
~
The Banner hasl held that prohibition
was un-Democratic and that it is politi-
eel movement; the Dallas convention hes
done nothing to change this opinion. A
majority of the members Of the conyen-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-15
'pbe Governor Indorsed

NEW YORK, Nov. l4.-Master Work
man James E. Quinn, of d. A. 49,,
Knights of Labor, got around yesterday
to Pythagoras hall in time to be present
at the meeting of the assembly. He
said that he had been to see Gov.
Oglesby, of Springfield, and had pre-
sented the petition of the district as
sembly and of the different other
Knights of Labor assemblies in the
state Gov. Oglesby had received him
kindly.
1T was no use trying to persuade him
to doanything. Master Workman Quinn
said. "Gov. Oglesby said thatfor every
petition for mercy received from the
friends of the condemned men he could
produce hundreds from business men
and reputable, law-abiding citizens all
over the country requesting him to re-
main steadfast in supporting the deci-
sion of the courts. There was no unan-
unity in the demand for mercy. Some
wanted the prisoners set free: others.
again, he said, talked for new trial for
the condemned men. But HE business
men all were unanimous that the men
should all be hanged. 1t was the best
that the governor could do to commute
the sentences of Fielden and Schwab to
life imprisonment"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-15
North Adams Anarchists.

North ADAMS, Mass, Nov. IA
small body of German socialists held a
meeting in Adams yesterday afternoon
and tvening, at which speeches landing
the doings of the Chicago anarchists
were made and the following reSOlu-
tions, written in German. were passed:
TO our companions, Spies, Fielden.
Schwab, Parsons, Fischer, LIngg and
Engel: The Workingmen's Socialist
society, of Adams, Mass, at a special
meeting held this day. resolved unani-
mOusly that we all sympathiZe with
YOU and condemn severely the miScOn-
StructiOn of the laws and those who un-
Justly execute them. May just punish
ment for their class instinct overtake
them. We pledge ourselves as men of
liberty to carry on the fight until the
oppressed nation is freed from the
blOOdthirSty hyenas known as capital
lists. The courage with which you look
death in the eye for the cause of free
dom is source of pride to US. We ac-
company you in deepest mourning on
your last journey, and hope that from
Your blood freedom for all mankind
may soon arise. Your Sorrowing COM
panionS, Section Adams. Charles Back
pnofen organizer
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-15
How T!ingg Died.

CHICAGO. Nov. LIT has been set
tied that Louis Lingg killed himself
with dynamite bomb, and not full
minating cap, as was at first supposed.
His cell was given thorough overhaul
ing to-day for the first time since his
suicide in order to put it in shape for
other prisoners. During the search
shattered pieces of gas pipe were found,
showing conclusiVely that Llngg had
exploded a dynamite bomb in his mouth.
and not Illuminating cap. One OF
these pieces is over an inch long, and
appears to have been torn lOngitudinally
from larger piece by an explosion.
The remnant is in the possession of
Sheriff Matson, who keeps it as a
souvenir of the most desperate man
ever under his charge. The condition
of the walls of Lingg's cell also bear out
the theory that bomb was used by
him. Large pieces of the solid masonry
are broken Off by the force of the mis-
sile of which the bomb was made. How
the bomb got into his possession seems
as much mystery as ever. The SuSpl-
ciOn that was at first directed to one of
the deputies on guard is now no longer
thought of. 1t is generally believed
that Lingg had it in his possession at
the time the other four were found, and
had it secreted in his hair, thing he
could very easily do, as his hair was
over six inches long and very thick. 1t
is the opinion of the jail officials that all
the bombs were passed through the iron
caging by some outside friends, although
he may have filled them himself in his
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-15

referred to as recommended by the ply
sicians at San Reno, but in the mean
time objected to by the crown prince.
The emperor afterward received Count
Won StOlberg and Dr.. Schmidt and
asked that the crown prince return to
Berlin at the soonest possible moment.
The crown princess replied objecting to
her husbands travelling in his present
condition. 1t is reported that the crown
prince is now more willing to submit to
an early operation. To-day the EN-
peror, after an interview with Prince
William, held family council, which
was attended by Prince William and his
wife, and Prince Henry and Princess
Charlotte. In the afternoon the EN-
peror was actively at work. He heard
reports on important matters presented
by Gen. Albedyll, Privy Counselor
WilmOvski and Count Won StOlberg.
A dispatch from San Reno says: The
crown princes physicians have advised
their patient to remain quiet and to take
only gentle exercise. The balmy air OF
San Reno is considered to be highly
beneficial to the prince, and he will ac-
cordingly remain here. The operation
has been indefinitely postponed. DR..
Mackenzie will probably go to Berlin to
have an interview with Emperor Will
lam
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-15
THEY FELL UPON HIM.
A Chicago Husband Who Re-
fused to be an Anarchist
Is Slugged
By His Wife, SiSteP-in-LaW
and Father-in-LaW---Ap-
rests Follow.
Lingg Suicided With a Bomb
and Not With a illuminate
Cartridge.
A Brooklyn Preacher Who
Declines to Expound the
Gospel to Socialists.

CHICAGO, Nov. Ill have no use
for a man who is too big coward to
make bombs to kill the police. If you
won't make bombs I'll leave YOU" This
was what Mrs. Clara Paech, No. 1910
Van Horn street, said with all the vio-
lence of viragO to her husband,
Rudolph, on Sunday night. At the
same time Miss Johanna OppitZ, Ru-
dolph's sister-in-law, dashed bucket
of water in his face. and old man Oppitz
Joined IN the melee and caught his SON
in-law by the neck. Rudolph swore he
would not make bombs to please his an
archiSt wife and her family; that he was
a law-abiding citizen; that he was no
coward and no anarchist. He would
not. stand more abuse from them, so he
appeared before Justice G. j. Whites
police court to-day and obtained war
rants for the three, charging his sister
in-law with assault and the others with
disorderly conduct. They were arrested
and held in bail of 500 each.
In cleaning up Lingg's cell, at the
county jail to-day, a copy of Herr Most's
design for haymarket monument was
found.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-15
GEN BRAGG.
He Thinks Cleveland Will Be Re
nominated and Reelected.

nominated anu 1G-PlccLeOs
Special 10 the Globe.
MADISON, Wis, Nov. 14.-To-mOr-
rows Democrat will publish the follow
ing self-explanatory letter from Gen. E.
:. Bragg, member of congress from the
Second Wisconsin district:
Fond du Lac. Wis. Nov. 13.-My at
tentiOn is called to a reported interview
with me in Chicago, published in your
issue of Nov. IL, representing me as
personally hostile to the denomination
of Mr.. Cleveland. This is a very grave
mistake. 1t matters but little what my
views are Oh the subject, but if they
are to be given to the public it is prefer
able to have them stated corr ectly. Mr.
Cleveland'S denomination has been
settled. in my Judgment. for months
past by the satisfaction his adminiStra-
tiOn has given TO the conservative bust
hess men of the country. and | have
been and am in full accord with that
settlement. The successful outcome
for him at the election in
1883 l have regarded as very
prOblenatical by reason of the new
factor in politics represented by Mr..
George, and 10 me the election in New
York this fall was Of great significance
IN testing Tie Slftllglll OF MT. George rs
an independent leader, and ] must con-
fess awaited the result with serious
misgivingS, although l had been as
sured Mr. Georges vote would show a
great falling OFF and that Col. Grant
would be beaten beyond Il question. My
interviewer should have said, to repre-
sent me correctly, that MIR. Cleveland's s
nomination was inevitable, but that |
had said to my friends, Don't be too
sure of IS till New York is heard FROM
If New York goes Democratic this fall
then our success in 'SS is assured. But
if we fail this fall it will be uphill busi-
ness for us in 1855 The Interview as
published by YOU with the above cor
rectiOn represents correctly my views
and declarations if they should happen
10 be thought OF any moment by any Of
your readers EDWARD S. BRAGG.